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The Impostor Software Developer Syndrome

Did you ever feel like a fraud as a software developer? Have the feeling that at some point, someone is going to find out that you really don’t belong where you are? That you are not as smart as other people think?

You are not alone with this; many high-achieving people suffer from the imposter syndrome. But what is it? And why do we suffer from it? Even when we know we suffer from it, and we have proof of that, we are still impaired by having it. It stops us from following our dreams. This talk tries to explore it and suggests ways to fight it.